Ex-courier stole $7500 from customers, including primary school

A former courier driver has been sentenced after stealing about $7500 from three of the company's customers.

A former courier driver who stole $7500 off three of his company's customers has been sentenced to community work.

On Thursday, Walter James Marsh appeared in the New Plymouth District Court after he was found guilty of four charges of theft last month.

He went on trial before Judge Carolyn Henwood on April 17 after pleading not guilty to the offending and he maintained from the witness box that he had either lost the money or delivered it to the wrong person.

It was a position Judge Henwood found implausible, and after taking into account other evidence, she delivered her guilty verdicts on June 1.

Between September 2016 to April 2017, and while employed by Fastway, four parcels containing cash were picked up and handed to Marsh to deliver to the bank. In total, $7563.90 went missing on Marsh's watch.